Question Publisher:  Pearson/Prentice Hall BAM 530 

Publisher:
Pearson/Prentice HallBAM 530
Business Ethics
Text: Business Ethics
Seventh Edition, 2010
ISBN-lO: 0205731937
Authors:
Richard DeGeorge

Multiple Choice Questions (Enter your answers on the enclosed answer sheet)
1. Who was the moral philosopher who wrote The Theory of Moral Sentiments as well as The Wealth of Nations?
a. John Locke
b. John Wesley
c. David Hume
d. Adam Smith
2. Special ethics applies to which of the following?
a. It analyzes hidden presuppositions and brings them to light for critical scrutiny
b. It consists of applying general ethics to particular problems.
c. It analyzes societal practices and their application to particular problems.
d. It consists of studying and describing the morality of a people, culture, or society.
3.Who was the philosopher that condemned usury?
a. Thomas Aquinas
b. Reinhold Niebuhr
c. Adam Smith
d. Immanuel Kant
4. Which of the following describes metaethics?
a. It compares and contrasts different ethical systems, codes, practices, and beliefs.
b. It attempts to form into a related whole the various norms, rules, and values of a soc iety’s moral ity.
c. It attempts to justify the basic principle of morality.
d. It analyzes hidden presuppositions and brings them to light for critical scrutiny
5. Which of the following is the art of solving difficult problems, cases, or deliberations through the careful application of moral principles?
a. special effects
b. normative eth ics
c. metaethics
d. casuistry
6. Atn) is a problem, situation, or opportunity requiring an individual, group, or organization to choose among several actions that must be evaluated as right or wrong.

a. eth ical issue
b. crisis
c. indictment
d. fraud
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7. What is the first level of moral development according to Lawrence Kohlberg?
a. Conventional
b. Preconventional
c. Autonomous
d. Postconventional
8. What does it mean for an action to be subjectively right?
a. An action is subjectively right if it is in conformity with the moral law.
b. An action is subjectively right if a person believes that the action is moral.
c. An action is subjectively right if it promotes the greater good.
d. An action is subjectively right if it advances one’s own self-interest.
9. What does it mean for an action to be objectively right?
a. An action is objectively right if a person believes that the action is moral.
b. An action is objectively right if it is in conformity with the moral law.
c. An action is objectively right if it advances one’s own self-interest.
d. An action is objectively right if it promotes the greater good.
10. What is the name given to philosophers who attempt to use only one ethical approach to ethical questions?
a. ethical pluralists.
b. uti I itarians
c. deontologists
d. eth ica I mon ists.
11. What is the name given to philosophers who construct their ethical approaches with mixed approaches?
a. ethical pluralists.
b. utilitarians
c. ethical monists.
d. deontologists
12. Which level in Kohlberg’s is the least attained?
a. first level
b. third level
c. second level
d. fourth level

l3. Consequentialism belongs to which sort of ethical approach?
a. deontological
b. special
c. theological
d. teleological
14. The ethical approach that maintains that what has to be calculated is not pleasure or happiness but all intrinsically valuable human goods, which include friendship, knowledge, and a host of other goods valuable in themselves
a. ideal utilitarianism
b. hedon istic uti I itarian ism
c. eudairnonistic utilitarianism
d. all of these
15. Which of the following is NOT a step to be taken in a utilitarian analysis?
a. Identify all those who are directly and indirectly affected by the action.
b. Consider, imaginatively, whether there are various alternatives other than simply doing or not doing the action, and carry out a similar analysis for each of the other alternative actions.
c. Specify only the good consequences of the action for those directly affected.
d. Carry out a similar analysis, if necessary, for those indirectly affected, as well as for society as a whole.
16. Which of the following was a hedonistic utilitarian that argued that we should consider intensity, duration, certainty, propinquity, and fecundity when performing an analysis?
a. John Stuart Mill
b. Jeremy Bentham
c. Immanuel Kant

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